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Macfadyen, Alyx
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia
 
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Alyx Macfadyen is a lecturer at La Trobe University (Australia). She is interested in the evaluation of engagement and experience in interactive and multimodal narratives generated by and developed for computational systems. She undertook her PhD in information technology at the University of Ballarat (Australia), where she advanced a methodology to observe and measure fundamental elements of interactive scenarios and narratives that are represented using technology. Alyx’s current research centers on narrative analysis for the development and evaluation of static dramatic scenarios for handheld devices and within urban street settings.

Alyx works with a number of languages and scripting protocols. These, combined with her degree in Visual Arts, facilitate her work with human/device interfaces and the development of applications for iOS and Android devices. Her work includes interactive media, narrative nodes for decision support systems and the development of scenarios for dynamic and branching narratives.

DramaGen is an online application prototype developed by Alyx that implements narrative and scenario generation based on user-selected, dramatic-level variables. This application is being developed for deployment across media, and concurrent commercialization is planned.

Alyx is a member of the Health Informatics Laboratory (HIL) at the University of Ballarat (Australia) and a board member of reviewers for ACM Computers in Entertainment.

 
 
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   Trends and applications of serious gaming and social media
Baek Y., Ko R., Marsh T., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2014. 180 pp.  Type: Book

Baek, Ko, and Marsh have produced what I found to be a rather interesting collection of papers that survey serious gaming and its applications. The authors describe the use of game elements and game design techniques in non-game contex...

Jul 28 2014  
   Guiding attention in controlled real-world environments
Booth T., Sridharan S., McNamara A., Grimm C., Bailey R.  SAP 2013 (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, Dublin, Ireland, Aug 22-23, 2013) 75-82, 2013.  Type: Proceedings

I found this paper somewhat disappointing. Although the work presented has a novel quality, it does not break much ground....

Nov 21 2013  
   Guiding attention in controlled real-world environments
Booth T., Sridharan S., McNamara A., Grimm C., Bailey R.  SAP 2013 (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, Dublin, Ireland, Aug 22-23, 2013) 75-82, 2013.  Type: Proceedings

I found this paper somewhat disappointing. Although the work presented has a novel quality, it does not break much ground....

Nov 21 2013  
   Crowd simulation (2nd ed.)
Thalmann D., Musse S., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, London, UK, 2013. 311 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-447144-49-6)

A wide variety of applications require effective techniques and solutions for developing crowd simulations. This second edition surveys techniques, discusses issues and applications, and concludes with case studies. I found the topics ...

Sep 12 2013  
   Maximizing benefits from crowdsourced data
Barbier G., Zafarani R., Gao H., Fung G., Liu H. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 18(3): 257-279, 2012.  Type: Article

Crowdsourcing involves the production of crowd-generated data. These might be data collected during crises, such as a large set of location-based tweets during a firestorm or severe flooding, or numerous SMS reports to a common system ...

Feb 28 2013  
   Maximizing benefits from crowdsourced data
Barbier G., Zafarani R., Gao H., Fung G., Liu H. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory 18(3): 257-279, 2012.  Type: Article

Crowdsourcing involves the production of crowd-generated data. These might be data collected during crises, such as a large set of location-based tweets during a firestorm or severe flooding, or numerous SMS reports to a common system ...

Feb 28 2013  
   Metro revealed: building Windows 8 apps with HTML5 and JavaScript
Freeman A., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 108 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-430244-88-2)

The new Metro development tools from Microsoft are a pleasant surprise. The focus on apps demonstrated by Windows 8 touchscreen notebooks (and handheld devices) will certainly appeal to anyone who likes to tinker with apps, or simply w...

Jan 3 2013  
   Moving to the cloud: developing apps in the new world of cloud computing
Sitaram D., Manjunath G., Syngress Publishing, Waltham, MA, 2011. 468 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-597497-25-1)

Businesses, governments, corporations, and individuals are moving to the cloud. Why? Because of the convenience of moving data offsite, the advantages of multi-platform and multi-device access, and the fact that the cloud is the emerge...

Sep 26 2012  
   Regular expressions as violin bowing patterns
Hall C., O’Donnell J. Computer Music Journal 36(2): 74-84, 2012.  Type: Article

A regular expression (regex) is a mathematical notation used to search for a particular string of text using patterns to manipulate that text in some way. Using the music engraving software LilyPond, Hall and O’Donnell descri...

Aug 20 2012  
   Regular expressions as violin bowing patterns
Hall C., O’Donnell J. Computer Music Journal 36(2): 74-84, 2012.  Type: Article

A regular expression (regex) is a mathematical notation used to search for a particular string of text using patterns to manipulate that text in some way. Using the music engraving software LilyPond, Hall and O’Donnell descri...

Aug 20 2012  
 
 
 
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